Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Piece from a Kosode with Chrysanthemums and Leaves” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 00:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Piece from a Kosode with Chrysanthemums and Leaves
Artist not stated in the record

Ice Cream Spoon
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1776
Kettle on Stand from Chrysanthemum Tea Set
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1891–1902

Wall clock (cartel)
Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Matchsafe with Chrysanthemums and Butterfly
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Room from a hotel in the Cours d'Albret, Bordeaux
Barthélemy Cabirol · ca. 1785, with later additions

Study of Two Chrysanthemums
Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929 · early 20th century

Plate with chrysanthemums
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Carving
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Jar (Tsubo) with Chrysanthemums
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1725

Potpourri bowl with cover (one of a pair)
Artist not stated in the record · porcelain late 17th century, mounts ca. 1745–50

Interior Wall Elevation
François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1696–1740

A Hypocrite and a Slanderer
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt · ca. 1770–83

Panel from priest's robe
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Stacked Food Box (Jūbako) with Taro Plants and Chrysanthemums
Shibata Zeshin · mid-19th century

Chimney Piece Design
D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647

Piece
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

Letter box
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Table
Artist not stated in the record · 19th or first decade of 20th century (with earlier parts)

Chimney Piece Design
D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647 · 1647

Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Self-Portrait
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · ca. 1635

Interior Wall Elevation
François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741 · 1696–1740
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 1031 matched · 24 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2936224 matched · 40 examined · 11 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 00:28 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.